Hot Chilli
#b7513a
A red that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#b7513a
RGB
183, 81, 58
OKLCh
56.1% 0.138 34.1°
CIELAB (D50)
47.9, 41.1, 34.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 69% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 73.6; on black, Lc -28.1. The sign is the polarity, which the WCAG ratio discards.
- Built into an eleven-step scale, 10 of the 10 adjacent pairs stay ΔE00 2 apart — see the ramp.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 30.5 and 33.5 and 39.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.94:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.25:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at4.94:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#b7513a
protanopia
#64643b · ΔE00 30.5
deuteranopia
#7b7b33 · ΔE00 33.5
tritanopia
#8f8f00 · ΔE00 39.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCrimson Warrior at ΔE00 1.051: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Crimson WarriorΔE00 1.051 · #b35138
- Burnt OchreΔE00 1.288 · #bb4f35
- Glowing CoalsΔE00 1.412 · #bc4d39
- Orange VermillionΔE00 1.477 · #bc5339
- Autumn GlazeΔE00 1.678 · #b3573f
- Hearty OrangeΔE00 1.737 · #b44b34
- Beni ShogaΔE00 1.93 · #b85241
- Burnt BrickΔE00 2.026 · #b45241
- GrenadierΔE00 2.08 · #c14d36
- Red RiverΔE00 2.098 · #b95543
- Crimson BoyΔE00 2.16 · #b44933
- Overcast BrickΔE00 2.185 · #b3583d
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.